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Driving across

Photo taken by Bill Burmaster
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Construction of main span

These two photos were submitted by Mark Frazier
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Construction of deck

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Steel through arch bridge carrying I-57 over the Mississippi River at Cairo
Status
Open to four lanes of traffic
History
Built 1978
Design
Steel through arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 820.7 ft.
Total length: 4,088.8 ft.
Deck width: 59.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.02417, -89.21083   (decimal degrees)
37°01'27" N, 89°12'39" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers
IL 002-0022 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15005 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2004)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Not deficient
Sufficiency rating: 67.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
10,000

Categories 

Alexander County, Illinois (16)
Arch (7,542)
Built 1978 (20)
Built during 1970s (286)
Cairo, Illinois (6)
Illinois (815)
Mississippi County, Missouri (21)
Mississippi River (88)
Missouri (2,322)
NR-eligible (2,570)
Open (21,537)
Owned by state (6,495)
Span length 500-1000 feet (233)
State line crossing (143)
Steel through arch (127)
Total length over 2500 feet (334)

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Comments 

Cairo I-57 Bridge
Posted September 15, 2007, by mike rhodes (bridgebuilderus [at] YAHOO [dot] COM)

I think the contractor on the sub-structure of this bridge was Al Johnson, a Minneapolis contractor that went out of business in the early 90's.